December 22, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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and mister Pete Bursich joins us now. Peter, good morning,
it's nine to now and it's all Paul. It's always
great to chat with you. I have an I in
the Sky suggestion for your vast and never expanding YouTube channel,
Pete Pete bursag five six. In the search bar, you'll
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find Eye in the Sky, some film breakdowns and stuff
like that. It would be Jalen Redman's domination because he's
an exclusive free agent end of the season and he's
sitting on potentially a boatload of cash with with Redman
and those eleven TFLs and six sacks, what are you liking?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I what what is there not to like? Right?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
He's he's a guy who had to work his way
to get onto us, onto us, onto a roster right
he was playing in the ufl found a way to
get his foot in the door. It's, you know, just
a lot like Adam Feeling found a way to get
his foot in the door, showed something where they wanted
to keep him around, and then just continued to get
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god to get better.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
And I just love the fact that he hasn't left
that behind. He still keeps that as part of you know,
he's never arrived, he's not here. He just he just
works and and does what he does, and he fits
what Brian Flores wants to do with the scheme, uh,
you know very well. And you know that's something that
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when it comes to free agency and everything. I hope
he and his agent keep in mind that he fits
what's Las wants to do here very well. It doesn't
fit everybody, you know, I don't. I don't think he
could just go to a San Francisco four to three
jet type of a system and have the success that
he's had here. Now, maybe he could, I mean maybe,
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you know, he's he's proved it this this far and thus,
but it would be kind of starting over for him
again I hope he stays here just because of the
fact that again he's just just fits what we're trying
to do. And and you know, he talked to people
in the personnel department, in the pro personnel department. They
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they look to him as an example of why they
pour through hours of film and dig up information on
guys that are on the fringes of the NFL, because
every once in a while you find someone like Jalen
Redman who pays off, who ends up being a very
very good football player, and it makes all that time
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worth while. There aren't many, right, there aren't many guys
who who take the path that he has that he
has to this spot. And congratulations to him, and I
hope it's uh, you know, for for Jalen. I hope
he gets uh gets what he deserves this offseason. What
what did you think of Brosmer. I love that throw
that he made just to Jalen Naylor, even though it
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was incomplete. Uh, I put that ball right where it
needed to be. I love the throw obviously made to
Justin Jefferson against you know, three deep and the flat defender.
I thought I wasn't quite sure what the coverage was,
but in that coverage to put that football right where
it was when there really wasn't anybody anybody heading into
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the flat to kind of eat up that flat defender.
Maybe that was a beautiful throw, great decision, great throw.
I you know, I like what he's I like what
he's done. It's humbling to go out there and throw
pick sixes and and and throw four interceptions against Seattle,
and and hopefully, uh, he's learned from that. And I mean,
he's a different kind of kid, just just I think
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from I don't know him very well. I haven't really
talked to him very much, but seeing him on the
hoof and everything, he's mentally, he's just a different kind
of kid, very confident.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And I think that the what happened in Seattle, he
kind of hit the reset button a little bit. And
I'm really interested to see, you know, if he does
get out there again, the difference and and and hopefully
he'll be playing you know, he'll be playing better.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's I'm really excited.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
In that regard twenty two penalties combined for both teams
accepted yesterday.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Hell, Peter, twenty two of them? Are you kidding me? Yeah,
it's over officiating. No question about it. And you know that's.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's so much more in the in the spotlight. I
was listening to you guys earlier and the problems that
they're having in the NBA. The you know, with the officiating,
it's just all you ask for. And I know with
coaches when I was coaching, and we would have to
do the tapes and we would you know, sending stuff
into the league can question this and question that. It's
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just consistency. As a coach, you want consistency because if
you're teaching a technique or you're trying to teach a
guy what to do or how to play this or
how to do that, you have to give them guidelines
as to what's okay and what's not. And one week
it's going, you know, doing this, it's it's going to
be okay. A week later, it's not as far as
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you know, Like I look at Harrison Smith and the
penalty that he got, again, those.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Are by the book, so meaning if you so if
you sack the.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Quarterback and your helmet somehow makes contact with the helmet
of the quarterback, that's automatically a penalty. We know that's
not the case because we've seen it over and over
and over again where the quarterback has been hit, you know,
it gets a helmet in the face, and they you know,
they don't call it.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
So those kinds of penalties have to be have to
be judgment calls. They can't be by the book.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And that's the thing is, you know, you know you
can see it when a player is launching himself, for
when he's trying to injure right using his helmet as
a weapon. The sack that Harrison Smith had there, it
was nothing near that. He tried to use his shoulder.
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You can actually see him kind of turn his body.
Uh and and and again. I don't know how these
guys can play this game at this speed and as quickly,
as quick as the game is. And then you're free
to the quarterback. And then when you get there, you
have to go, oh yeah, wait a minute, I can't
just blow this guy up. I've got to kind of
turn my shoulder here. And you know they're very mobile
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and they might get away from me, but you know
I still have to kind of turn my it. I
think it's insanity. I don't think I don't see how
that how calling those penalties is protecting players. It diminishes
the game, but I don't think it. And at the
same time, I don't think it protects players. I think
that's why, you know, I just I you know, I
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don't know. There's just been There's just been a lot
of them. Man, I'm kind of I don't know what
to say, you know what I mean. It really takes
away from the game when you get a sack and
big play happens on defense or whatever, and then there's
the flag and it's like, well here we go.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
First time. It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But if you say it's by the letter of the
proverbial law, okay, well I'm saying that's how they called
it yesterday, I understand, but not every staff does that correct.
It's kind of like the home played umpire bit cool.
I got homeboy on Tuesday and lowing outside the strike.
Now I got my man on Wednesday and high and
inside the strike. You just lacking consistency is all these
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players and coaches want.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I agree with you, one hundred percent. And in baseball,
that's part of the bit, right, that's part of baseball.
And that's as a veteran, like you know, it's kind
of the That's why baseball is so it's such a
niche sport. It's like, okay, you got this umpire today,
he's alone, an outside guy. Okay, here we go. You know, pitcher, catcher.
They know what's going on. Blah blah blah. They manage
it and they go from there. In the in the NFL,
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it's I guess it's just not that cut and dry, right.
The strike zone is the strike zone right in the NFL,
it's not. And things happened so quickly. But man, I
tell you what that yesterday, the the officiating got in
the way. The game isn't about the penalties. The game
isn't the you know, the referees and the and the
umpires shouldn't be altho. Let me say this, I whoever
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the back I got to find out who that back
judge was? Who when when he was signaling catch, when
he would signal a catch, you'd give it the kick
like this guy would get excited like he got he
was just absolutely fired up. I know when Jordan Atison
caught one on the sideline and Jefferson caught one on
the sideline and he gave it, he gave it a
little fiat. You know, some theatrics to it. But that
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guy keep him around, the rest of them get rid
of it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But it's the same back judge who called a penalty
on a defensive lineman from thirty five yards away.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, I don't know if that was the same one.
I don't know if it was the same one or not.
But yeah, you're right, that was.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That was.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Now, I know, they all have rules on where they're
supposed to look if it's run, if it's passed. I mean,
so he may you know, he may not have been
out of bound, so to speak. He may have been
looking right where he was supposed to. I don't know.
I don't know all the intricacies of what the referees
are supposed to watch, you know, front side, backside, playside,
or you know whatever. So but yeah, again, no, that
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was to see that flag right from like forty yards away.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But overall, just a wasn't that a bizarre game? I mean,
Dark didn't throw a football in the first quarter, not
one zero pass attempts in the first quarter.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Yeah, his first first completion was to Byron Murphy Junior.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I believe. Yeah, the whole thing was just absolutely weird.
He regard let me ask you this, Pete.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
We've done a lot of loving on Eric will this
season and the year that he's having, how important he's
been to this defense. What about Blake Cashman though one
hundred and twenty tackles, he missed a couple of games,
I believe, but he in his eleven games played, he's
had double digit grabs in eight of those eleven. I mean,
just the consistency of Blake Cashman. We saw it a
year ago as well. When he's on the field, this
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defense appears to be at its best.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Absolutely, It's the versatility of the guys that we have.
And then you go out there loop without Jonathan Gernard,
who I still think is one of the best, if
not the best defender on the field that we have,
and then without Josh Mattelas, and then you start doing
the old Well, we'll put Jay Ward in on running
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downs and third down, THEO Jackson'll come in for the
coverage bit. We might you know, slop in, you know,
flop in Fabian Moreau every once in a while. And
then you have the linebacking crew with Dallas Turner and
Andrew van Ginkel, who almost had an interception he had
a sack, they try to block him with THEO Johnson
at the on the end of the game, and it's
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just an absolute mismatch. There aren't a lot of guys
that have the skill sets of Andrew van Ginkol and
Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman right and Dallas Turner where
they can rush the passer consistently, they can rush in
the inside and then they can also drop in coverage.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They have awareness.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's that aspect of it, and the multiplicity of all
these players is what causes all of these problems. Because
when Harrison Smith walks down and stands outside on the
edge of the defense at the line of scrimmage, you
can't ignore him.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You can't look at him and go he's a decoy.
He's not gonna blitz because he does right. And so
you can't just willly nearly show things defensively because a
good quarterback will sniff it out, like Dak Prescott, he'll
look at it and go, Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
They're not going to run this.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
They're you know, they're just they're disguising h and doing
something else where you have to make it actually look
like something. There's a whole other level to it, and
these guys execute it brilliantly. For you know, I mean
to go five weeks too, giving up a passing touchdown
on this day and age in the NFL, it's pretty
it's pretty damn remarkable and all those guys. And I'll
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say this, that play Isaiah Rogers made on Wandale Robinson
was unba believable because Wandale Robinson was running wide ass
open right through the middle of our defense because we
were zero blitz and we didn't care and we were like,
oh and that that's what that's what Flores does. He
made He's a quarterback, had to get rid of the
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football quickly because he was going to get lit up
like a Christmas tree. So he throws up a mortar
shot and Isaiah Rodgers, he's on the sideline covering the
wide receiver and he works his way all the way
to the middle of the field and gets there perfectly
timed to knock that football away. I think that was
that was probably that was one of the greatest plays
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I've seen this defense make this year.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
That play by A. A.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Rodgers was just outstanding and he.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Was only right.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
It looked like he was running like three quarter speed.
I mean, just no problems for number two catching up
and making that play. Let me ask you, because you
got a time, you have to time it up right.
You can't get there too early. And he also you
have another Minnesota, you have another Minneapolis miracle. Well, and
you got what twenty one becomes twenty two or twenty
three penalties on the day. Of course, what a day
was JJ McCarthy. I mean it's, you know, two games
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with Washington and Dallas. You see what I feel, I
believe market improvements for number nine and then you get
a half out of them yesterday, hand injury aside. What
did you see from the half you got out of jj?
H to say, good times, bad time? Still working on
this cool moment here? Well, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, he had a twelve interception, but I don't think
it was on him. It's a ball that should have
been caught. Addison should have caught a touchdown. I'm sure
he'd love to have that playback. Yeah, the nailor, you know,
the nailor interception. I think he looked, he's his decisiveness
was still there, right, And that's kind of I think,
what where all this is really turned around? Where you
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don't see him standing in the pocket just looking around
trying to figure out he makes his reads and if
they're not there, then he either throws to check down
or pulls the thing down and starts to run. Like
even on the touchdown that he scored, had he waited
a fraction of a second longer, the rush would eventually
got to him and I don't know if he would
have made it into the end zone. So his his
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decision making the accuracy still with some of the deeper throws,
I'm still I've been impressed with. I'm just getting concerned
about his ability to stay healthy. I mean it's you know,
it's the third time this year. Depending on what we
don't know me he might be fine, which would I
would be fantastic, but he still missed half of the game.
It's like it's okay now because we're trying to figure
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out if the kid has it. It's not going to
be okay week three next year when you're two and
oh out of the gate and your quarterback makes it
through you know, I mean you're halfway through a game
and now you got to go to your backup. So
the concern that concern about him staying healthy is real.
Hopefully with him, you know, him getting older, he's still young,
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you know. PA brings that up all the time, and
I appreciate that because I forget that he's he's twenty
he's twenty.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Two years old, yep.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So he's got some physical developing to do and you know, hopefully,
you know that'll that'll go by the wayside.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
But it's a concern right now.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I appreciate your brother.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
See you Thursday for the Christmas game for sure, Maybe
see you out there tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Appreciate you all right?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Sounds good?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Paulicy Pete Bursa's.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Analyst for the KFAM Minnesota Vikings audio network.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
The on field analyst is Ben Lieber.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When I walked into the locker room yesterday for the
drive buys, he had just finished a wonderful interview with
Justin Jefferson. If you missed a post game, we're going
to play it back next.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Come back nine to noon.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
You heard it towards the end of last segment, PA
kind of promoing a conversation that Ben Lieber had yesterday.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
With Justin Jefferson. Six catches eighty five.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yards for number eighteen, and Lieber caught up with him
down in the locker room after the w hat met life.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
I'm standing here with a very happy and celebratory Justin
Jefferson with the big old smile. You knew what you
knew exactly how many stats and yards you had this time?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Didn't? Oh? For sure?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
You know what a couple of plays, a couple of
big opportunities on third down, you know, me making some
big plays, and then of course you know, not really
having that you know, statistics for the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
You know, I definitely was locked in today.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
All right, I'm gonna put you on the spot here.
You had two incredible catches on the sidelines. You gotta
choose one. Which one was your favorite?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yeah? For sure, I'm gonna say the second one. Yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Naylor's answering for you.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah, great ball, just the late hands and then total
been on the sideline on on that big third downs.
That's very big for our offense to continue those drives
and continue that momentum, and of course to give Max
to that confidence to continue to throw the ball.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
So yeah, that that one was definitely one of my
favorite ones.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
What did he say to you in the huddle after
that great catch?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Great catch.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
But I always say, you know, I always practice those
type of catchers always, you know, just try to overdo
myself and in those type of situations. So for him
to give me that opportunity, for Ko to call that
play knowing that I'm most likely going to get that ball.
I mean, it's just time and time again. We just
got to continue to figure it out and continue to
connect with each other.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Did you guys expect that much pressure early in the
game any kind of throughout. They didn't seem to be
a heavy blitzing team, but really from the first play on,
they were there bringing some pressure.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah, I would say, just you know, for further quarterbacks
to not hold onto the ball too long and not
us taking the top off of their defense.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
So I'm them just trying to get us to quick
throw the.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Ball and getting it in and out of the quarterbacks
hands and for us to just go make those plays.
So those screens and the stuff in the first half,
those came from the blitz and us allowing to just
man on and just you know, go attack and go
get that first down.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
It seemed like this game, more so than others, you're
involved in a lot more the quick underneath stuff, the
quick crossing routes, especially some of the yak yards that
you had, was that just a product of what they
were doing. Was that kind of built in the game
plan and kind of gets you involved underneath more often?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
A little both.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I mean, just with how our defenses have been playing
me for the past two years, They're really.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Not allowing me to go deep.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
They're not really allowing me to you know, take the
top off and to have those one hundred and fifty
yard games. So I mean, we got to get the
ball in my hand some type of way. So just
having those screens, having those quick plays to get me
the ball and let me just go work and get
those yards after the catch.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
You know, I'm always curious when you're running some of
those plays and you're doing the yards after catch and
sometimes on the undesigned screenplays, are you aware of some
of the blocks are taking place out in front of
you or is this one of those things that you
just you just see color and you just try to
get past.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Them A little maxture both.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I'm kind of aware of the leverages and uh, you
know where my guys are going to be at for
for me to really take the you know, take the lanes.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
But it's really you know, sea color, get away from me.
They keep going.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
So it's just I mean, it's just all about going
to attack it. My mindset was just going that day
and attacking every play that I have, each opportunity that
I have, I got to make the most of them.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah, I gotta tell you from just a football standpoint,
I mean, watching you guys run the screenplays, especially today,
it's pretty special because it takes everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It takes timing, it takes rhythm, and it gets.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Guys a hat on a hat, and you know, I
think I don't think people really appreciate it, just like
the team effort it takes to have a successful screen.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
You know, a screen that doesn't just happen from one
person and making everybody missing going score. It comes from
the O line getting getting out of their stance and
getting out to that to that why side the block
for the tight ends the receivers to block as well,
so uh, and then we always take an isition to
to block in a run game as well. So uh,
we're always trying to fight for one another. We're always
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trying to uh spring open that play. Uh that big
play that we need for the momentum, for the for
the confidence of everybody else on that offense.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
So I'm just glad that I was able to.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Get the ball a little bit, get those conversions on
third down, uh, and for the for the office to
keep moving.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Last one for me here is like, I know, it
was a little windy out there. It was cool. I
wouldn't make I wouldn't necessarily say cold.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
But you guys, he had some difficulty coming down some
of those balls out there early on. You know, was
there something to that was the weather part of that
at all?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
No, I wouldn't say, uh, the weather was a problem.
It's just, uh, it's just high how it happens, not
really you know, a specific thing. Of course, we gotta
you know, be more focused and be more and locked
in uh to you know, catching those balls and uh
to be on the same page with the quarterback. Uh.
But you know we're we're never gonna say any excuses
from us catching the ball. We gotta catch the all
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at the end of the day.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Okay, I promise you this is the last one I
was gonna let's I do want to touch on on Brosmer.
I mean, it's a pretty tough spot for any backup
quarterback to come in, especially like that. You know, he continues,
at least from us on the outside looking in, to
just be.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Calm and collected. Is that how he feels when he's
in the huddles, Well, I definitely agree.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You know, you don't feel that nervous vibe. You don't
feel like he's too energetic or too hyped up.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
For that moment.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
He's just cool, calm and collected going in there doing
his job, leading in the offense to where we need
to go. But I mean, we always have confidence in
Max for confidence and JJ confidence and anybody to go
in there, go out there and do what we need
to do, just because of the preparation that we have
throughout the week, and of course the playmakers that we
have on the officive side of the ball. So we're
always confident in just going out there and playing our ball.
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But this is the type of ball we should have
been playing for the whole entire season. So I'm just
glad that we're having that finished mindset rather than just
laying our heads, are planning our vacations in the offseason.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
It's just going about our business. So I'm just happy
that I'm with this group of guys.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, great job man, great game. I appreciate it. All right, guys,
back to you.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
A great job.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
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I'm great appreciate you having me. You know, I've been
listening to this show for so long. We cover basketball
over the country now. But just like Parker, I'm a
diehard Minnesota sports fan. So it's great to be in here.
How do you guys know each other? How'd you mean?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Yeah, I mean we've met years ago, right like probably
five plus years.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I went to the University of Minnesota, and so I've
always been a fan of the basketball team. When Parker
came to the team, we got to know each other
because I was doing basketball stuff and I know each
other probably four or five years now.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
What is strictly bee ball? And and what led to
this becoming your passion?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So what led to basketball originally becoming my passion was
my dad used to be a high school teacher at
Delostyle High School, and I always grew up watching those
teams and going to Dave Dorson's basketball camps.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yeah, and still the go first Yeah, I still is. Yeah. Yeah,
he was the one. I want to meet him.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I've been telling you that he seems like he'd be
perfect to have on this radio show. Every So he's
he's old school, best school man. The guy's the bomb,
like he tweets and I've just read up on him
and stuff. He seems fantastic. Is he is Minnesota basketball?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yeah, definitely, sure, Yeah he he He talked about connections
that you have throughout like the football world.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
He's he's that with with basketball.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
You know, you went six straight, you know state championships,
that you're doing something right.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
So yeah, I didn't even know you had that dealer
cell conection.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah. Yeah, my dad worked there. He doesn't work there anymore.
But then I just became a Timberles fan. Ricky Rubio
is my first favorite player.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
He helped me fall in love with the game and
then now with strictly be ball. My friend Nolan Newburg
and myself we grew up together and we always shared
the basketball passion and the social media passion, and we
just start making videos and posting him on social.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Media, and eventually.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Around twenty twenty we really took off on TikTok and
then start started doing a lot of high school basketball stuff,
which all started with Chet Holmgren went out to a
game filmed on our phones, made a recap of the game,
and that video got like five million views, and after
that we just decided to keep doing high school basketball stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So do you know Chet, Yeah, we say, could you
text him see if he's playing tonight. I'm in a
high yeah, fantasy basketball league. He has center forward eligibility,
and I'd really love to know how him spasms feeling
right now before shoot around.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I can't say we're close friends. He definitely helped our career,
I will say that.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And so I would imagine you watched Jalen Sugs at
Mini Haha Academy.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, we watched both of them, but actually we always
regret this. We didn't come up with the idea to
cover those games and post them and like make recaps
until it was Chet senior year, So we missed the
Jalen and Page Beckers era, which huge.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, and well timed, by the way, twenty twenty disease pandemic,
everybody's sitting around, well timed. Bra As an entrepreneur would
go strictly strict strictly b ball or strictly basketball, we
called strictly ball prictly Ball cool with Joe.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Dor Yeah, we know you're an X guy, we know
you're you're a Twitter guy, but but they kill it
on the other social media's TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, almost three
million now on TikTok, almost five hundred thousand subscribers on
your team.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Million and you don't have girls with filters you're dancing?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Just hoo hoo.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
That's pret knowledge.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So well, so like, how do you how do you
follow Joe and strictly be It's Joe and Noel, right,
Nolan Nolan, Nolan.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Kay Nolan.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I got all your albums but Joe's and studios, so
you'll probably hear that name most.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
How do you follow them? Like on the other social
media channels.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
At strictly b Ball on everything, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, We're
even on Snapchat Spotlight, which is new to It's like
every every social is it a.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Sub stack and no people trying to figure out substack.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's similar to like you just endlessly scroll.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
They have a thing for that. But yeah, that's a
lot we can find us.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I hadn't heard that term, and those around six months
ago started saying what did you do last night. I
was just doomscroll that kind of political stuff and everything
like doom scrolling.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
That's elite.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, So uh with let's start here NBA officiating, Nuggets.
Uh well, no, first and foremost, you're you're doing some
form of high school basketball tour that people can watch
on the TikTok machine and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Like what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, So what we do most is high school basketball coverage.
We do all over the country now, but we always
try to keep a focus on Minnesota because we were
born here and we like to cover the athletes here.
So we actually partnered up with the Start Tribune and
Strip Varsity, like Randy Shaver's new Yeah. Yeah, Strip Varsity
is like their new high school is the chamber for him. Yeah,
(28:03):
he does the football soff okay, got it. And we're
doing a ten game but not Star Tribune.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Right for Shaver.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, I don't want to put an l on somebody here,
but I know Star Tribune has really elevated its high
school coverage. Yes, I'm probably talking about something else, but continue, No,
that's right, okay, yep.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
So then we're doing a ten game kind of tour.
We're calling it the strictly strip Varsity Tour where we
go to ten different games and just cover the athletes there.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
And tonight we have a game.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's Crosby Ironton at Rosemount girls basketball, which is featuring
two Gopher commits, Tory Orline, who has scored over four
thousand points in her high school career, and the ram
Lost sisters. So that's our game tonight, and we're at
We have eight more games on our little tour that
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we're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I never saw Parker play at Mota Meat. I would
imagine that there was some domination to the situation. However,
when I live in Eden Prairie and one of my
kids went to Eden Prairie for four years, the other
two then she ended up at Holy Family in Victoria.
But I got to know Ryan Iverson a little bit.
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Ryan Iverson high school basketball at Eden Prairie High School.
I mean, I don't know if you ever saw it
or heard about it or anything. I mean, man, you
talk about a dog Jamala bu Shamala at Shaka Pie.
I mean those were dogs in high school basketball. Man, Yeah,
exactly right.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
There's so much talent and I think like it's a
credit to you guys for what you've done. A lot
of people look at the men's side, right, like we've
had Joen Soggs, We've had Chat Holmgren, We've had the
Jones brothers. There's been so many good men's players, but
also female players on the female side, Like you look
at mar Broun and Amya Battle, they're having really successful
years at the U, and then you have some of
these girls coming up.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
What's the Duluth girl? She is, Uhloe Johnson. Yeah, we
covered her.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We actually drove to Duluth in the middle of that
snowstar whohead. It was a crazy it took us four
hours to get up there.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
But but that we would get you three million followers.
It's the grind grind. But yeah, remember the name Chloe Johnson.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
She's the number three ranked player in the entire country
and she's a sophomore right now. So if anyone's gonna
have like a Page Backer's type of run that name
now before she completely takes over women's basketball.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All right, Joe, So the best place for people to
learn more about this high school basketball tour would be.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Either at Stricklely b Ball or at Strip Varsity. Right on,
let's let's shift to the pros when we returned.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Joe d'Or with a strictly be ball is a in
studio with beloved Parker at Parker Fox two four.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
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much Sue Cup for the sponsorship of the Analyst this year,
and mister Pete Bursich joins us now. Peter, good morning,
it's nine to now and it's all Paul. It's always
great to chat with you. I have an I in
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Pete Pete bursag five six. In the search bar, you'll
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find Eye in the Sky, some film breakdowns and stuff
like that. It would be Jalen Redman's domination because he's
an exclusive free agent end of the season and he's
sitting on potentially a boatload of cash with with Redman
and those eleven TFLs and six sacks, what are you liking?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I what what is there not to like? Right?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
He's he's a guy who had to work his way
to get onto us, onto us, onto a roster right
he was playing in the ufl found a way to
get his foot in the door. It's, you know, just
a lot like Adam Feeling found a way to get
his foot in the door, showed something where they wanted
to keep him around, and then just continued to get
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god to get better.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
And I just love the fact that he hasn't left
that behind. He still keeps that as part of you know,
he's never arrived, he's not here. He just he just
works and and does what he does, and he fits
what Brian Flores wants to do with the scheme, uh,
you know very well. And you know that's something that
(01:54):
when it comes to free agency and everything. I hope
he and his agent keep in mind that he fits
what's Las wants to do here very well. It doesn't
fit everybody, you know, I don't. I don't think he
could just go to a San Francisco four to three
jet type of a system and have the success that
he's had here. Now, maybe he could, I mean maybe,
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you know, he's he's proved it this this far and thus,
but it would be kind of starting over for him
again I hope he stays here just because of the
fact that again he's just just fits what we're trying
to do. And and you know, he talked to people
in the personnel department, in the pro personnel department. They
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they look to him as an example of why they
pour through hours of film and dig up information on
guys that are on the fringes of the NFL, because
every once in a while you find someone like Jalen
Redman who pays off, who ends up being a very
very good football player, and it makes all that time
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worth while. There aren't many, right, there aren't many guys
who who take the path that he has that he
has to this spot. And congratulations to him, and I
hope it's uh, you know, for for Jalen. I hope
he gets uh gets what he deserves this offseason. What
what did you think of Brosmer. I love that throw
that he made just to Jalen Naylor, even though it
(03:19):
was incomplete. Uh, I put that ball right where it
needed to be. I love the throw obviously made to
Justin Jefferson against you know, three deep and the flat defender.
I thought I wasn't quite sure what the coverage was,
but in that coverage to put that football right where
it was when there really wasn't anybody anybody heading into
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the flat to kind of eat up that flat defender.
Maybe that was a beautiful throw, great decision, great throw.
I you know, I like what he's I like what
he's done. It's humbling to go out there and throw
pick sixes and and and throw four interceptions against Seattle,
and and hopefully, uh, he's learned from that. And I mean,
he's a different kind of kid, just just I think
(04:01):
from I don't know him very well. I haven't really
talked to him very much, but seeing him on the
hoof and everything, he's mentally, he's just a different kind
of kid, very confident.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And I think that the what happened in Seattle, he
kind of hit the reset button a little bit. And
I'm really interested to see, you know, if he does
get out there again, the difference and and and hopefully
he'll be playing you know, he'll be playing better.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's I'm really excited.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
In that regard twenty two penalties combined for both teams
accepted yesterday.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Hell, Peter, twenty two of them? Are you kidding me? Yeah,
it's over officiating. No question about it. And you know that's.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's so much more in the in the spotlight. I
was listening to you guys earlier and the problems that
they're having in the NBA. The you know, with the officiating,
it's just all you ask for. And I know with
coaches when I was coaching, and we would have to
do the tapes and we would you know, sending stuff
into the league can question this and question that. It's
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just consistency. As a coach, you want consistency because if
you're teaching a technique or you're trying to teach a
guy what to do or how to play this or
how to do that, you have to give them guidelines
as to what's okay and what's not. And one week
it's going, you know, doing this, it's it's going to
be okay. A week later, it's not as far as
(05:25):
you know, Like I look at Harrison Smith and the
penalty that he got, again, those.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Are by the book, so meaning if you so if
you sack the.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Quarterback and your helmet somehow makes contact with the helmet
of the quarterback, that's automatically a penalty. We know that's
not the case because we've seen it over and over
and over again where the quarterback has been hit, you know,
it gets a helmet in the face, and they you know,
they don't call it.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
So those kinds of penalties have to be have to
be judgment calls. They can't be by the book.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And that's the thing is, you know, you know you
can see it when a player is launching himself, for
when he's trying to injure right using his helmet as
a weapon. The sack that Harrison Smith had there, it
was nothing near that. He tried to use his shoulder.
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You can actually see him kind of turn his body.
Uh and and and again. I don't know how these
guys can play this game at this speed and as quickly,
as quick as the game is. And then you're free
to the quarterback. And then when you get there, you
have to go, oh yeah, wait a minute, I can't
just blow this guy up. I've got to kind of
turn my shoulder here. And you know they're very mobile
(06:39):
and they might get away from me, but you know
I still have to kind of turn my it. I
think it's insanity. I don't think I don't see how
that how calling those penalties is protecting players. It diminishes
the game, but I don't think it. And at the
same time, I don't think it protects players. I think
that's why, you know, I just I you know, I
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don't know. There's just been There's just been a lot
of them. Man, I'm kind of I don't know what
to say, you know what I mean. It really takes
away from the game when you get a sack and
big play happens on defense or whatever, and then there's
the flag and it's like, well here we go.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
First time. It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But if you say it's by the letter of the
proverbial law, okay, well I'm saying that's how they called
it yesterday, I understand, but not every staff does that correct.
It's kind of like the home played umpire bit cool.
I got homeboy on Tuesday and lowing outside the strike.
Now I got my man on Wednesday and high and
inside the strike. You just lacking consistency is all these
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players and coaches want.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I agree with you, one hundred percent. And in baseball,
that's part of the bit, right, that's part of baseball.
And that's as a veteran, like you know, it's kind
of the That's why baseball is so it's such a
niche sport. It's like, okay, you got this umpire today,
he's alone, an outside guy. Okay, here we go. You know, pitcher, catcher.
They know what's going on. Blah blah blah. They manage
it and they go from there. In the in the NFL,
(08:09):
it's I guess it's just not that cut and dry, right.
The strike zone is the strike zone right in the NFL,
it's not. And things happened so quickly. But man, I
tell you what that yesterday, the the officiating got in
the way. The game isn't about the penalties. The game
isn't the you know, the referees and the and the
umpires shouldn't be altho. Let me say this, I whoever
(08:31):
the back I got to find out who that back
judge was? Who when when he was signaling catch, when
he would signal a catch, you'd give it the kick
like this guy would get excited like he got he
was just absolutely fired up. I know when Jordan Atison
caught one on the sideline and Jefferson caught one on
the sideline and he gave it, he gave it a
little fiat. You know, some theatrics to it. But that
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guy keep him around, the rest of them get rid
of it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But it's the same back judge who called a penalty
on a defensive lineman from thirty five yards away.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, I don't know if that was the same one.
I don't know if it was the same one or not.
But yeah, you're right, that was.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That was.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Now, I know, they all have rules on where they're
supposed to look if it's run, if it's passed. I mean,
so he may you know, he may not have been
out of bound, so to speak. He may have been
looking right where he was supposed to. I don't know.
I don't know all the intricacies of what the referees
are supposed to watch, you know, front side, backside, playside,
or you know whatever. So but yeah, again, no, that
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was to see that flag right from like forty yards away.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But overall, just a wasn't that a bizarre game? I mean,
Dark didn't throw a football in the first quarter, not
one zero pass attempts in the first quarter.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Yeah, his first first completion was to Byron Murphy Junior.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I believe. Yeah, the whole thing was just absolutely weird.
He regard let me ask you this, Pete.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
We've done a lot of loving on Eric will this
season and the year that he's having, how important he's
been to this defense. What about Blake Cashman though one
hundred and twenty tackles, he missed a couple of games,
I believe, but he in his eleven games played, he's
had double digit grabs in eight of those eleven. I mean,
just the consistency of Blake Cashman. We saw it a
year ago as well. When he's on the field, this
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defense appears to be at its best.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Absolutely, It's the versatility of the guys that we have.
And then you go out there loop without Jonathan Gernard,
who I still think is one of the best, if
not the best defender on the field that we have,
and then without Josh Mattelas, and then you start doing
the old Well, we'll put Jay Ward in on running
(10:42):
downs and third down, THEO Jackson'll come in for the
coverage bit. We might you know, slop in, you know,
flop in Fabian Moreau every once in a while. And
then you have the linebacking crew with Dallas Turner and
Andrew van Ginkel, who almost had an interception he had
a sack, they try to block him with THEO Johnson
at the on the end of the game, and it's
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just an absolute mismatch. There aren't a lot of guys
that have the skill sets of Andrew van Ginkol and
Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman right and Dallas Turner where
they can rush the passer consistently, they can rush in
the inside and then they can also drop in coverage.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They have awareness.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's that aspect of it, and the multiplicity of all
these players is what causes all of these problems. Because
when Harrison Smith walks down and stands outside on the
edge of the defense at the line of scrimmage, you
can't ignore him.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You can't look at him and go he's a decoy.
He's not gonna blitz because he does right. And so
you can't just willly nearly show things defensively because a
good quarterback will sniff it out, like Dak Prescott, he'll
look at it and go, Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
They're not going to run this.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
They're you know, they're just they're disguising h and doing
something else where you have to make it actually look
like something. There's a whole other level to it, and
these guys execute it brilliantly. For you know, I mean
to go five weeks too, giving up a passing touchdown
on this day and age in the NFL, it's pretty
it's pretty damn remarkable and all those guys. And I'll
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say this, that play Isaiah Rogers made on Wandale Robinson
was unba believable because Wandale Robinson was running wide ass
open right through the middle of our defense because we
were zero blitz and we didn't care and we were like,
oh and that that's what that's what Flores does. He
made He's a quarterback, had to get rid of the
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football quickly because he was going to get lit up
like a Christmas tree. So he throws up a mortar
shot and Isaiah Rodgers, he's on the sideline covering the
wide receiver and he works his way all the way
to the middle of the field and gets there perfectly
timed to knock that football away. I think that was
that was probably that was one of the greatest plays
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I've seen this defense make this year.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
That play by A. A.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Rodgers was just outstanding and he.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Was only right.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
It looked like he was running like three quarter speed.
I mean, just no problems for number two catching up
and making that play. Let me ask you, because you
got a time, you have to time it up right.
You can't get there too early. And he also you
have another Minnesota, you have another Minneapolis miracle. Well, and
you got what twenty one becomes twenty two or twenty
three penalties on the day. Of course, what a day
was JJ McCarthy. I mean it's, you know, two games
(13:27):
with Washington and Dallas. You see what I feel, I
believe market improvements for number nine and then you get
a half out of them yesterday, hand injury aside. What
did you see from the half you got out of jj?
H to say, good times, bad time? Still working on
this cool moment here? Well, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, he had a twelve interception, but I don't think
it was on him. It's a ball that should have
been caught. Addison should have caught a touchdown. I'm sure
he'd love to have that playback. Yeah, the nailor, you know,
the nailor interception. I think he looked, he's his decisiveness
was still there, right, And that's kind of I think,
what where all this is really turned around? Where you
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don't see him standing in the pocket just looking around
trying to figure out he makes his reads and if
they're not there, then he either throws to check down
or pulls the thing down and starts to run. Like
even on the touchdown that he scored, had he waited
a fraction of a second longer, the rush would eventually
got to him and I don't know if he would
have made it into the end zone. So his his
(14:26):
decision making the accuracy still with some of the deeper throws,
I'm still I've been impressed with. I'm just getting concerned
about his ability to stay healthy. I mean it's you know,
it's the third time this year. Depending on what we
don't know me he might be fine, which would I
would be fantastic, but he still missed half of the game.
It's like it's okay now because we're trying to figure
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out if the kid has it. It's not going to
be okay week three next year when you're two and
oh out of the gate and your quarterback makes it
through you know, I mean you're halfway through a game
and now you got to go to your backup. So
the concern that concern about him staying healthy is real.
Hopefully with him, you know, him getting older, he's still young,
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you know. PA brings that up all the time, and
I appreciate that because I forget that he's he's twenty
he's twenty.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Two years old, yep.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So he's got some physical developing to do and you know, hopefully,
you know that'll that'll go by the wayside.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
But it's a concern right now.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I appreciate your brother.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
See you Thursday for the Christmas game for sure, Maybe
see you out there tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Appreciate you all right?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Sounds good?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Paulicy Pete Bursa's.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Analyst for the KFAM Minnesota Vikings audio network.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
The on field analyst is Ben Lieber.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When I walked into the locker room yesterday for the
drive buys, he had just finished a wonderful interview with
Justin Jefferson. If you missed a post game, we're going
to play it back next.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Come back nine to noon.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
You heard it towards the end of last segment, PA
kind of promoing a conversation that Ben Lieber had yesterday.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
With Justin Jefferson. Six catches eighty five.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yards for number eighteen, and Lieber caught up with him
down in the locker room after the w hat met life.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
I'm standing here with a very happy and celebratory Justin
Jefferson with the big old smile. You knew what you
knew exactly how many stats and yards you had this time?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Didn't? Oh? For sure?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
You know what a couple of plays, a couple of
big opportunities on third down, you know, me making some
big plays, and then of course you know, not really
having that you know, statistics for the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
You know, I definitely was locked in today.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
All right, I'm gonna put you on the spot here.
You had two incredible catches on the sidelines. You gotta
choose one. Which one was your favorite?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yeah? For sure, I'm gonna say the second one. Yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Naylor's answering for you.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah, great ball, just the late hands and then total
been on the sideline on on that big third downs.
That's very big for our offense to continue those drives
and continue that momentum, and of course to give Max
to that confidence to continue to throw the ball.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
So yeah, that that one was definitely one of my
favorite ones.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
What did he say to you in the huddle after
that great catch?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Great catch.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
But I always say, you know, I always practice those
type of catchers always, you know, just try to overdo
myself and in those type of situations. So for him
to give me that opportunity, for Ko to call that
play knowing that I'm most likely going to get that ball.
I mean, it's just time and time again. We just
got to continue to figure it out and continue to
connect with each other.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Did you guys expect that much pressure early in the
game any kind of throughout. They didn't seem to be
a heavy blitzing team, but really from the first play on,
they were there bringing some pressure.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah, I would say, just you know, for further quarterbacks
to not hold onto the ball too long and not
us taking the top off of their defense.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
So I'm them just trying to get us to quick
throw the.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Ball and getting it in and out of the quarterbacks
hands and for us to just go make those plays.
So those screens and the stuff in the first half,
those came from the blitz and us allowing to just
man on and just you know, go attack and go
get that first down.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
It seemed like this game, more so than others, you're
involved in a lot more the quick underneath stuff, the
quick crossing routes, especially some of the yak yards that
you had, was that just a product of what they
were doing. Was that kind of built in the game
plan and kind of gets you involved underneath more often?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
A little both.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I mean, just with how our defenses have been playing
me for the past two years, They're really.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Not allowing me to go deep.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
They're not really allowing me to you know, take the
top off and to have those one hundred and fifty
yard games. So I mean, we got to get the
ball in my hand some type of way. So just
having those screens, having those quick plays to get me
the ball and let me just go work and get
those yards after the catch.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
You know, I'm always curious when you're running some of
those plays and you're doing the yards after catch and
sometimes on the undesigned screenplays, are you aware of some
of the blocks are taking place out in front of
you or is this one of those things that you
just you just see color and you just try to
get past.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Them A little maxture both.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I'm kind of aware of the leverages and uh, you
know where my guys are going to be at for
for me to really take the you know, take the lanes.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
But it's really you know, sea color, get away from me.
They keep going.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
So it's just I mean, it's just all about going
to attack it. My mindset was just going that day
and attacking every play that I have, each opportunity that
I have, I got to make the most of them.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah, I gotta tell you from just a football standpoint,
I mean, watching you guys run the screenplays, especially today,
it's pretty special because it takes everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It takes timing, it takes rhythm, and it gets.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Guys a hat on a hat, and you know, I
think I don't think people really appreciate it, just like
the team effort it takes to have a successful screen.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
You know, a screen that doesn't just happen from one
person and making everybody missing going score. It comes from
the O line getting getting out of their stance and
getting out to that to that why side the block
for the tight ends the receivers to block as well,
so uh, and then we always take an isition to
to block in a run game as well. So uh,
we're always trying to fight for one another. We're always
(20:09):
trying to uh spring open that play. Uh that big
play that we need for the momentum, for the for
the confidence of everybody else on that offense.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
So I'm just glad that I was able to.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Get the ball a little bit, get those conversions on
third down, uh, and for the for the office to
keep moving.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Last one for me here is like, I know, it
was a little windy out there. It was cool. I
wouldn't make I wouldn't necessarily say cold.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
But you guys, he had some difficulty coming down some
of those balls out there early on. You know, was
there something to that was the weather part of that
at all?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
No, I wouldn't say, uh, the weather was a problem.
It's just, uh, it's just high how it happens, not
really you know, a specific thing. Of course, we gotta
you know, be more focused and be more and locked
in uh to you know, catching those balls and uh
to be on the same page with the quarterback. Uh.
But you know we're we're never gonna say any excuses
from us catching the ball. We gotta catch the all
(21:00):
at the end of the day.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Okay, I promise you this is the last one I
was gonna let's I do want to touch on on Brosmer.
I mean, it's a pretty tough spot for any backup
quarterback to come in, especially like that. You know, he continues,
at least from us on the outside looking in, to
just be.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Calm and collected. Is that how he feels when he's
in the huddles, Well, I definitely agree.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You know, you don't feel that nervous vibe. You don't
feel like he's too energetic or too hyped up.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
For that moment.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
He's just cool, calm and collected going in there doing
his job, leading in the offense to where we need
to go. But I mean, we always have confidence in
Max for confidence and JJ confidence and anybody to go
in there, go out there and do what we need
to do, just because of the preparation that we have
throughout the week, and of course the playmakers that we
have on the officive side of the ball. So we're
always confident in just going out there and playing our ball.
(21:49):
But this is the type of ball we should have
been playing for the whole entire season. So I'm just
glad that we're having that finished mindset rather than just
laying our heads, are planning our vacations in the offseason.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
It's just going about our business. So I'm just happy
that I'm with this group of guys.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, great job man, great game. I appreciate it. All right, guys,
back to you.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
A great job.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Not Joe, and likewise for Justin Jefferson. This is nine
to noon, it's ten forty two. You're listening to kfan.
All right, let's take you inside the weeds here momentarily
with a Nordo May producer and yours truly. Yes, we
love the NFL. Yes, we love chatting about the Minnesota Vikings.
(22:30):
We do that a lot by day, but by night,
whether it's chatting or talking, it would be like, did
you see Dennis Shrewders walk off?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Jamal shed plays good perimeter defense. Hugo Gonzalez the rookie
who knew We are league freak raised. We love the NBA,
and we love the Timberwolves. And we also love Parker Fox,
who's a back in studio with us. What's up at
Parker Fox?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Two?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Four?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
And good morning and good morning brother, Parker's brought a
friend him. This excites me.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
When I started writing this last night, flying back from
New Jersey and learning more about Joe Dore and strictly
b ball, strictly basketball specifically with TikTok. My man's into
it and he's he's in studio with us. Now, Joe,
welcome to nine to Noon.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I'm great appreciate you having me. You know, I've been
listening to this show for so long. We cover basketball
over the country now. But just like Parker, I'm a
diehard Minnesota sports fan. So it's great to be in here.
How do you guys know each other? How'd you mean?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Yeah, I mean we've met years ago, right like probably
five plus years.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I went to the University of Minnesota, and so I've
always been a fan of the basketball team. When Parker
came to the team, we got to know each other
because I was doing basketball stuff and I know each
other probably four or five years now.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
What is strictly bee ball? And and what led to
this becoming your passion?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So what led to basketball originally becoming my passion was
my dad used to be a high school teacher at
Delostyle High School, and I always grew up watching those
teams and going to Dave Dorson's basketball camps.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yeah, and still the go first Yeah, I still is. Yeah. Yeah,
he was the one. I want to meet him.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I've been telling you that he seems like he'd be
perfect to have on this radio show. Every So he's
he's old school, best school man. The guy's the bomb,
like he tweets and I've just read up on him
and stuff. He seems fantastic. Is he is Minnesota basketball?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yeah, definitely, sure, Yeah he he He talked about connections
that you have throughout like the football world.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
He's he's that with with basketball.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
You know, you went six straight, you know state championships,
that you're doing something right.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
So yeah, I didn't even know you had that dealer
cell conection.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah. Yeah, my dad worked there. He doesn't work there anymore.
But then I just became a Timberles fan. Ricky Rubio
is my first favorite player.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
He helped me fall in love with the game and
then now with strictly be ball. My friend Nolan Newburg
and myself we grew up together and we always shared
the basketball passion and the social media passion, and we
just start making videos and posting him on social.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Media, and eventually.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Around twenty twenty we really took off on TikTok and
then start started doing a lot of high school basketball stuff,
which all started with Chet Holmgren went out to a
game filmed on our phones, made a recap of the game,
and that video got like five million views, and after
that we just decided to keep doing high school basketball stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So do you know Chet, Yeah, we say, could you
text him see if he's playing tonight. I'm in a
high yeah, fantasy basketball league. He has center forward eligibility,
and I'd really love to know how him spasms feeling
right now before shoot around.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I can't say we're close friends. He definitely helped our career,
I will say that.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And so I would imagine you watched Jalen Sugs at
Mini Haha Academy.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, we watched both of them, but actually we always
regret this. We didn't come up with the idea to
cover those games and post them and like make recaps
until it was Chet senior year, So we missed the
Jalen and Page Beckers era, which huge.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, and well timed, by the way, twenty twenty disease pandemic,
everybody's sitting around, well timed. Bra As an entrepreneur would
go strictly strict strictly b ball or strictly basketball, we
called strictly ball prictly Ball cool with Joe.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Dor Yeah, we know you're an X guy, we know
you're you're a Twitter guy, but but they kill it
on the other social media's TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, almost three
million now on TikTok, almost five hundred thousand subscribers on
your team.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Million and you don't have girls with filters you're dancing?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Just hoo hoo.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
That's pret knowledge.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So well, so like, how do you how do you
follow Joe and strictly be It's Joe and Noel, right,
Nolan Nolan, Nolan.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Kay Nolan.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I got all your albums but Joe's and studios, so
you'll probably hear that name most.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
How do you follow them? Like on the other social
media channels.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
At strictly b Ball on everything, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, We're
even on Snapchat Spotlight, which is new to It's like
every every social is it a.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Sub stack and no people trying to figure out substack.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's similar to like you just endlessly scroll.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
They have a thing for that. But yeah, that's a
lot we can find us.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I hadn't heard that term, and those around six months
ago started saying what did you do last night. I
was just doomscroll that kind of political stuff and everything
like doom scrolling.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
That's elite.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, So uh with let's start here NBA officiating, Nuggets.
Uh well, no, first and foremost, you're you're doing some
form of high school basketball tour that people can watch
on the TikTok machine and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Like what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, So what we do most is high school basketball coverage.
We do all over the country now, but we always
try to keep a focus on Minnesota because we were
born here and we like to cover the athletes here.
So we actually partnered up with the Start Tribune and
Strip Varsity, like Randy Shaver's new Yeah. Yeah, Strip Varsity
is like their new high school is the chamber for him. Yeah,
(28:03):
he does the football soff okay, got it. And we're
doing a ten game but not Star Tribune.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Right for Shaver.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, I don't want to put an l on somebody here,
but I know Star Tribune has really elevated its high
school coverage. Yes, I'm probably talking about something else, but continue, No,
that's right, okay, yep.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
So then we're doing a ten game kind of tour.
We're calling it the strictly strip Varsity Tour where we
go to ten different games and just cover the athletes there.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
And tonight we have a game.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's Crosby Ironton at Rosemount girls basketball, which is featuring
two Gopher commits, Tory Orline, who has scored over four
thousand points in her high school career, and the ram
Lost sisters. So that's our game tonight, and we're at
We have eight more games on our little tour that
(28:53):
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I never saw Parker play at Mota Meat. I would
imagine that there was some domination to the situation. However,
when I live in Eden Prairie and one of my
kids went to Eden Prairie for four years, the other
two then she ended up at Holy Family in Victoria.
But I got to know Ryan Iverson a little bit.
(29:13):
Ryan Iverson high school basketball at Eden Prairie High School.
I mean, I don't know if you ever saw it
or heard about it or anything. I mean, man, you
talk about a dog Jamala bu Shamala at Shaka Pie.
I mean those were dogs in high school basketball. Man, Yeah,
exactly right.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
There's so much talent and I think like it's a
credit to you guys for what you've done. A lot
of people look at the men's side, right, like we've
had Joen Soggs, We've had Chat Holmgren, We've had the
Jones brothers. There's been so many good men's players, but
also female players on the female side, Like you look
at mar Broun and Amya Battle, they're having really successful
years at the U, and then you have some of
these girls coming up.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
What's the Duluth girl? She is, Uhloe Johnson. Yeah, we
covered her.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We actually drove to Duluth in the middle of that
snowstar whohead. It was a crazy it took us four
hours to get up there.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
But but that we would get you three million followers.
It's the grind grind. But yeah, remember the name Chloe Johnson.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
She's the number three ranked player in the entire country
and she's a sophomore right now. So if anyone's gonna
have like a Page Backer's type of run that name
now before she completely takes over women's basketball.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All right, Joe, So the best place for people to
learn more about this high school basketball tour would be.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Either at Stricklely b Ball or at Strip Varsity. Right on,
let's let's shift to the pros when we returned.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Joe d'Or with a strictly be ball is a in
studio with beloved Parker at Parker Fox two four.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
On the X Machine, you're listening to nine to now
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